Deng Xiaoping was the paramount leader of China from 1978 to 1992, responsible for launching China's 'reform and opening up' economic transformation, blending market mechanisms with Communist Party rule.
Engineered China's transition to market socialism; his pragmatic ideology ('it doesn't matter whether a cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice') enabled the most rapid economic development in human history.
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